February 3, 2013

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Introducing The Facebook Hookup App. “Here’s how it works: People anonymously select those on their friend list who they’d like to sleep with, then the app notifies the two people if they’ve selected each other. The app only launched last week but it’s already racked up over 20,000 users and facilitated 1,000 hookups. . . . The goal is to take the rejection out of asking a totally random person on your friend list for sex (because a request like that is always a tad awkward) and to ‘cut to the chase’ (because who has time to date anymore?)”